The Silurian Hypothesis asks whether signs of truly ancient past civilizations would even be recognisable today.

The invention of the wheel is often hailed as one of the most transformative moments in human history. Yet, for all its ...

In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court extended the right to bear arms to every corner of the country. The landmark case effectively ...

This tiny stone is an anomaly of geology. It is the rarest kind of diamond — graded “Fancy red,” pure and unmodified by other ...

Lo and behold, scientists have created the impossible: a collection of public domain and openly licensed text large enough to ...

Since at least the 1950s, chess has served as a kind of benchmark for machine intelligence. IBM’s Deep Blue shocked the world in 1997 when it beat then-world champion Garry Kasparov. That machine used ...

The worm tower behaves like a superorganism. When the time is right, worms gather together to create a wriggling mass, a tower of worm-ness. No, really. They climb onto each other until their bodies ...

The Ice Prince lived for only 18 months, but his past is wrapped in mystery, wealth, and extraordinary preservation.

In axolotls, retinoic acid acts like a molecular GPS. Its concentration changes along the length of a regenerating limb, ...

For one, the often-repeated claim that ChatGPT is ten times more energy-intensive than a Google search is no longer supported ...

While the violin may have started as a whimsical demonstration of precision, it now plays a serious role in science. It was ...

An illustration of the cosmic web, the universe’s large-scale structure of composed of galaxy-rich clumps and filaments alongside giant intergalactic ...